Olympic Channel/NBC to Highlight 'Dream Team Week' and IAFF Diamond League
By: TV News Desk Aug. 28, 2017
This week's coverage on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA - a partnership between the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and NBCUniversal - is highlighted by a "Dream Team Week" marathon celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, as well as Team USA's 2017 World Champions Christian Taylor and Brittney Reese competing at the final IAAF Diamond League Track & Field event of the season in Brussels, Belgium.
In addition, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will continue its presentation of live coverage of the 2017 Vuelta a España featuring four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome (Team Sky) as he looks to complete the Grand Tour double after winning the Tour de France last month. Froome is in the lead after nine stages. Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is live streamed on OlympicChannel.com, the Olympic Channel app, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app. Select replays and highlights will be available on these digital platforms as well as TeamUSA.org.VUELTA A ESPAÑA - LIVE DAILY COVERAGE AT 10 A.M. ET Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA continues its coverage of the 2017 Vuelta a España - the final Grand Tour of the season - this week with live daily coverage at 10 a.m. ET. Running from Tuesday, August 29, to Sunday, September 10, the Vuelta is made up of 21 stages, and will cover a total distance of more than 2,000 miles. Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome (Team Sky) looks to complete the Grand Tour double with a win at the Vuelta after winning the Tour de France last month. He will be joined by three-time Vuelta winner Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo), and 2014 Tour de France and 2010 Vuelta winner Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida). Paul Sherwen calls the race, joined by analyst and former professional cyclist Bob Roll.
FIS WORLD CUP FREESTYLE SKIING Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA coverage of freestyle skiing from the FIS World Cup in Cardrona, New Zealand, continues this Thursday night at midnight ET with the first ski halfpipe event of the season. Notable Americans slated to compete include 2017 world champion Aaron Blunck and 2014 Olympic slopestyle silver medalist Gus Kenworthy on the men's side, and 2014 Olympic gold medalist Maddie Bowman on the women's. Coverage continues on Sunday at midnight ET with snowboard slopestyle, highlighted by a formidable trio of U.S. women lead by 2014 Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson, 2017 X GAMES winner Julia Marino and 2017 big air X GAMES winner Hailey Langland. Trace Worthington (play-by-play) will provide commentary, and will be joined by analysts Luke Van Valin on Thursday and Kaitlyn Farrington on Sunday.
2017 ARCHERY WORLD CUP FINAL - ROME, ITALY Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will present coverage of archery from the 2017 Archery World Cup Final from Rome, Italy, this Saturday and Sunday at 6 p.m. ET. Notable Americans slated to compete include three-time Olympic medalist Brady Ellison on Sunday and Steve Anderson and Braden Gellenthien on Saturday.
GLOBAL GAMES Four Olympians take on social media stars in mash-up competitions with an Olympic twist. Highlighting the Olympic field is American Lolo Jones (track & field, bobsled) and Olympic gold medalist Jamaican Asafa Powell (track & field). The two-part original series premieres today at 5 p.m. ET.

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